"If Brexit happens, it will be detrimental to the UK and it will
have a negative impact to the whole of Europe ... Of course I
hope that the UK doesn’t leave the EU."

Li is the chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd., a company that
has made him the 24th richest man in the world with a net worth
of $28.6 billion, according
to Bloomberg.

It's an energy, infrastructure, and telecom holding company that
happens to derive 37% of its profit from customers in the UK. He
also owns a real estate development firm.

Three months ago, Li said that he would pull money out of the UK
if it left the EU. This is pretty significant, given that he has
said that he wants to create the biggest mobile-phone carrier in
the UK.

On Monday, billionaire investor George Soros, who famously
shorted the British pound and "broke the Bank of England" back in
the '90s, warned that Brexit could
pull the pound down 20%.